MOREHEAD, Ky - Barrel manufacturing giant Independent Stave Co. (ISC) will build a $66.5 million cooperage in Northern Kentucky, creating 220 jobs. With both a stave mill and a cooperage in the region ...

Instilling automation to what is traditionally a handcrafted operation not only improved the cost efficiency and productivity of the company’s barrel production, but earned Jack Daniel’s Cooperage the ...

SALEM, Mo. — Standing on a wooded hillside in the Ozarks, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis, Brad Boswell watches a chain-saw-wielding logger make several deft cuts at the base of a 100-foot ...

CUBA, Mo. — Don McGinnis traces his finger along the top edge of a wooden barrel on the factory floor while a sea of workers around him cut planks of oak, position staves to form a circle, and char ...

This story appears in Birmingham magazine's July 2016 Issue. Subscribe today! With the proliferation of brown liquors available at your favorite bar these days, it's easy to forget the long, ...

SPENCER — As demand for Kentucky-made whiskey escalates worldwide, distiller Brown-Forman finds itself short on barrels to age it in. So the Louisville-based distiller has purchased 65 acres and a ...